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exclamation /ɜː(r)/
/ɜːr/
(also erm)
(British English)- the sound that people make when they are deciding what to say next
- ‘Will you do it?’ ‘Er, yes, I suppose so.’
- I’m, er, I’m going now.
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Word Originnatural utterance: first recorded in English in the mid 19th cent.